Phoenix New Times detailed stories of abused
children but with a chilling twist -- these kids were
routinely being mistreated by state officials in
juvenile corrections facilites. The series and
follow-ups sparked a federal inquiry and call for
reform by dozens of state leaders and child
advocates. That's the sort of in-depth investigation
Phoenix readers have come to rely on from New
Times, which has kept the Valley of the Sun
sizzling for more than three decades. Over the
years, New Times has attracted hundreds of
thousands of loyal, involved readers who
consider the paper an unparalleled source of
information and insight, from politics and business
to music and the arts. In the process, New Times
has collected an unprecedented number of
journalism awards, in prestigious national
contests as well as in its home state, where it
regularly dominates the Arizona Press Club
contest and boasts an almost unbroken string of
Arizona Journalist of the Year winners.

I had heard of Charles Keating. The man became famous as an anti-porn crusader in Cincinnati back in the '70s, hustling his version of morality against Hustler's version of what the Founding Fathers meant in the First Amendment. My knowledge of Mr. Keating didn't end there, however.